Serial Bone Density Measurement and Incident Fracture Risk Discrimination in Postmenopausal Women.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Repeated bone mineral density (BMD) testing to screen for osteoporosis requires resources. For patient counseling and optimal resource use, it is important for clinicians to know whether repeated BMD measurement (compared with baseline BMD measurement alone) improves the ability to discriminate between postmenopausal women who will and will not experience a fracture.

Objective

To assess whether a second BMD measurement approximately 3 years after the initial assessment is associated with improved ability to estimate fracture risk beyond the baseline BMD measurement alone.

Design, setting, and participants

The Women's Health Initiative is a prospective observational study. Participants in the present cohort study included 7419 women with a mean (SD) follow-u

SUBMITTER: Crandall CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7385675 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature